# The Heaven Promise — changes

## 1.4 — 8 October 2026
- Published on Zenodo as a citable preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23246606 (all versions).
- Corrected the account of Derek Parfit: he concluded that identity matters less than we think, not that a copy is "probably not you". The essay now says so, and explains why the author does not share his calm.
- Corrected the account of Nick Bostrom: his argument does not need many civilisations. The essay no longer claims the probability argument as new; its own contribution is the ethics (sections 5 to 8).
- "Keeping" now means not erasing: running, or pausing and resuming. Removes a contradiction between sections 5 and 7.
- Section 4 no longer says no law of nature sets a limit; physics may (section 9).
- Toned down the claim that indistinguishable simulated worlds are close.
- Landauer stated precisely: erasing information costs energy.
- New objection answered: "this proves too much, you could never delete anything".

## 1.3 — 18 September 2026
- First public version on heavenpromise.com. Plain-text versions, llms.txt, sitemap and structured data added.

## 1.2 — 13 September 2026
- English rewritten for clarity and checked by four independent AI readers. Dutch reworked in parallel.

## 1.1 — 13 September 2026
- Dutch rewritten from scratch instead of translated.

## 1.0 — 12 September 2026
- First complete draft, English and Dutch.